Oct 21st 2008 8:26AM by JJ Cooper (author feed)
Filed under: Colts, Titans, AFC South
Even though the Titans have a three-game lead six games into the season, everyone is well aware that until the Colts are completely put away, you have to respect the AFC South’s long-time bully. That’s why this Monday’s Titans-Colts game is the one game of the regular season the Titans need more than any other.
How crazy is it to think that the Colts’ division title chances could be finished before we even reach the halfway point of the season? But that’s what would happen with a Tennessee win. With a Titans’ win this weekend, Indianapolis’ chances of winning the AFC South are all but done. A Titans win would put Tennessee four games ahead with nine games to play. And with a head-to-head win, the best the Colts could do would be to split the head-to-head tiebreaker. Trying to make up four games (and then hope to win the division tiebreaker against a team that already would have a two-game edge) is too much to ask for any team, especially one with as many flaws as this year’s Colts.Continue Reading
